The year 2024 is already looking up to be quite the year for many Simple Plan fans, as they will get to see the band return to many locations where due to the lockdowns on the past couple of years they haven’t been able to set their foot in. Next year, after hitting Europe in January and February and later on Brazil in March, Simple Plan have now announced an Australian tour with special guests Boys Like Girls and We The Kings! Now this is gonna be a wild ride!
In Australia, the bands will be hitting 5 cities: Perth (7th April), Adelaide (9th April), Melbourne (11th April), Sydney (13th April) and Brisbane (14th April). The tickets sale officially starts October 13th. Will you be there?
Back in December 2019, Simple Plan paid a visit to their fans in Australia, where they performed at multiple dated of the local Good Things Festival as well as at a few of their headlining shows.
Now, the boys decided to dig up some of the backstage footage from this trip to cheer up their fans in these hard times. Check out what the guys have been up to in Australia – from shows to bonding with the Australian wildlife:
With the beginning of the year also comes the time to close the chapter of the previous one. That also applies to the Simple Plan Foundation, which has just announced its 2019 donations yesterday. The Foundation will be helping young people in need by donating over $140 000 to more than 20 charitable organizations. Besides that, the band also announced that given their tight connection to Australia and the devastating wild fire situation there, they will also be making a special $10 000 donation to Australia Red Cross.
Read the full statement from the Simple Plan Foundation regarding their 2019 donations:
The Simple Plan Foundation is proud to announce its 2019 donations. Just a few days before Christmas, over 140,000$ was donated to more than 20 charitable organizations devoted to helping young people in need.
Since its inception, the SPF has awarded more than 2,500,000$ (2.5M$) in charitable contributions and looks forward to continuing its mission to help young people in need.
Organizations that received support this year include: CHU Sainte-Justine Hospital, Montreal’s Children Hospital, Sick Kids Hospital, Douglas Institute for Mental Health, The Lighthouse – Children and Families , the JAP Clinic at the CHUM Hospital, as well as Dr Julien’s Music Garage, the Portage Foundation, War Child Canada and many more.
Following the band’s Australian tour last month and after witnessing the devastation caused by the wild fires that have afflicted the country, the Foundation is making a special 10,000$ donation to the Australia Red Cross emergency response to help the victims of this disaster.
Also, this year, 1$ per ticket on the ‘Where I Belong’ tour with State Champs was dedicated to a special donation to the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) to support the children and families affected by the ICE immigration raids in the United States.
The Foundation is extremely grateful to the Simple Plan fans who help make all of this possible. We could not do this without you. Thank you for all your support!
For more information on the Simple Plan Foundation, details on the charities we support and the donations we make and for a way to contribute and donate, please visit www.simpleplanfoundation.com“
The main reason for Simple Plan to travel all the way to Australia this December was their invitation to the Good Things Festival, where they band performed for the very first time alongside acts such as Simple Creatures, Bad Religion, The Veronicas, A Day To Remember or Parkway Drive.
This three-day festival brought all the bands to three of some of the biggest cities in Australia: Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane over the course of this past Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Fans from all over Australia and further have gathered to witness their favorite bands to play at one festival and they were in for quite a treat.
Now, let’s have a look at what Simple Plan’s set looked like, shall we? The boys decided to keep it simple and given the fact that they only had an hour, decided to play 14 of their songs with an additional cover of Oasis’ ‘Wonderwall’, which was added as an extra song before the final song on the last two days of the festival (Sydney and Brisbane). Besides this surprising addition to the setlist, the boys also had one more treat up their sleeve: a special live collaboration on Jet Lag with Erin Reus from the Australian band Stateside.
Check out the full setlist below:
1. I’d Do Anything
2. Jump
3. Welcome To My Life
4. Jet Lag (feat. Erin Reus)
5. Addicted
6. Boom!
7. Can’t Keep My Hands Off You
8. Summer Paradise
9. Thank You
10. Where I Belong
11. Shut Up!
12. What’s New Scooby Doo?
13. I’m Just A Kid
14. Wonderwall (Oasis cover)
15. Perfect
But enough talk, let’s watch! Check out Pierre performing ‘Wonderwall’ at Good Things Festival, Simple Plan performing ‘Jet Lag’ with Erin Reus from Stateside below and a short video recap of the set in Melbourne below:
And below you can already check out all three photo albums from Simple Plan’s appearance at the Good Things Festival – in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane:
On the night before his first show back in Australia today at Good Things Festival, Pierre Bouvier headed out to the Stay Gold club yesterday, December 5th, where Simple Creatures (a musical duo featuring Alex Gaskarth from All Time Low and Mark Hoppus from blink-182) performed a special DJ set.
The guys then invited their old pal to join them during the set to sing his own band’s song – Simple Plan’s ‘I’d Do Anything’, accompanied by Alex and also Mark Hoppus, hence this becoming the first ever live featuring of Mark Hoppus on this song, which he had lent his vocals to back on Simple Plan’s debut album in 2002.
Check out the images from this special appearance of Pierre in our gallery and below you can watch the entire performance from many angles thanks to the Instagram Stories by Peter John, Pierre, Simple Plan and also thanks to a video sent to us by Leeann – thank you! Enjoy:
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